Inspirational story: Sorry, I only live a 1% life

She not only draws her love story with comics, but also develops the ? Quick Look Comic?APP, so that all the comics are perfectly adapted to the cell phone screen. She, a young girl, the author of Annie and Wang Xiaoming? Annie Chen.

The One Percent Dream That Won't Give Up

Annie Chen has loved comics since she was a little girl, and when the mood struck, she drew a few strokes herself. Because there is no opportunity to get professional guidance, she bought comic books, anime magazines, learn others to draw. These books were all secretly bought by me from the pocket money I saved. Sometimes when my mom asked, I only dared to say that I borrowed them from my classmates. Gradually, these anime books have been piled up in a thick pile on the desk. 10 years old, once she drew her short story in class, the class teacher found out. The homeroom teacher threw her drawing book to the floor and said: ? Your drawings are so bad, I'm telling you, the probability of you becoming a cartoonist is only one in a hundred!!!? Annie Chen packed up her sketchbook with tears in her eyes, the one percent hope, too slim.

Note: Annie Chen's cartoon "I'm sorry, I'm only living a 1% life"

In 2010, Annie Chen was admitted to the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and in her sophomore year, her father had a car accident on the way to his job, and the family's only source of financial resources was broken, and Annie Chen's life was in trouble. By chance, a friend approached her and asked her to draw comics for a book for 30 yuan each. Annie Chen's dream, which had been buried deep in her heart all these years, suddenly became clear, and she accepted and completed her friend's task. Her friend looked at the vivid caricatures she drew and said, "Annie, you should really draw caricatures. Annie, you really should draw comics, you're a genius.?

Anne Chen was motivated again, she bought a lot of illustrated books, and also bit the bullet and bought a handwriting tablet.

Whenever it was late at night, she ambled over to her desk to draw her story. She expressed the youthful story of herself and her boyfriend, Wang Xiaoming, from meeting to falling in love through pages and pages of comics.

In 2012, after the comic, called Annie and Wang Xiaoming, was serialized on her Weibo, it was retweeted nearly 400,000 times in just a few days, and was read 1.27 billion times and discussed 1.531 million times during the serialization period.

In the comic, there is a wonderful chemistry between the cute and adorable female protagonist and the dark and calm male protagonist, which recalls the ambiguous feelings in the campus, and the comic is humorous and funny, as well as very heartwarming and touching.

Note: The youth campus comic "Annie and Wang Xiaoming"

In November 2012, her first picture book "Nima! This is College!

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The support of countless readers made Annie realize that the initial seemingly impossible dream of cartooning had turned into a beautiful reality. The university is about to graduate, Annie Chen after some investigation found that the Beijing comic talent is relatively concentrated, the industry exchange opportunities are more, especially the major network media gathered, the future of the product publicity has a unique convenience, she decided to go to Beijing to start a business. She decided to go to Beijing to start her own business. Her family was first against it, saying: "You're a little girl, you have nothing. You're a little girl, nothing, you want to go to business? Just stay with us, draw your favorite comics, and make some money with an established comic book brand. My friend even objected: "You're just a writer. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new computer, and you're going to be able to get it to work for you.

These opposing voices could not stop her. in June 2014, Anne found a few young people who shared her dream of cartooning and set up ? Dream of course (Dream for granted)? Studio. Annie Chen said: ? I've always dreamed that people in China who like to draw comics can make a living from them, and that readers can see more good-looking comics.

With the popularity of cell phones and mobile Internet, more and more people read comics online, but all the comic software has the shortcomings that make people crazy: slow; some functions need buttons, menus to achieve; can not automatically select the most optimal configuration; the picture has to constantly manually shrink and zoom in; and sometimes comics appear complex screen area division, but also let a person fall into the clouds.

Annie Chen thought, can you design a kind of reading comics APP, foolproof, so that people only use their fingers to click, you can read a complete story, fast, manipulation as desired.

Annie rented a few relatively inexpensive private rooms, 12 employees 4 people a room, bunk beds, living room converted into an office area. The company is looking for investment every day, but nothing. When she was about to lose confidence, a friend who has known her for many years said she was willing to invest in their team. After the money problem was solved, another problem appeared: they couldn't find the technical talents to make the APP. Annie Chen used the most stupid way, on the QQ search technology group, in the group to find a person on the wild chat, chatting and then about out to meet, and then forced him to introduce another person to her to know, so slowly opened up the situation.

In this studio of less than 40 square meters, Annie Chen will often say some jokes to ease the pressure of work:? Now everyone get serious and listen to me, I have a great plan. First of all, we are going to create an epic comic story, based on myself, about a fairy coming down to earth, do you all feel a fairy spirit? This group of partners who work 17 hours a day answered: ? No, only smelled the stench of bed sheets and shoes.?

Annie Chen always remembers what her friend said when she came to Beijing, that people who are too emotional are not suitable for entrepreneurship. So from the day the studio was set up, she became very strict, staff commuting to and from work to follow strict time regulations, all the work has been planned in detail, and work reports and summaries are conducted every night.

An innovator's breakout

It's been five months since the studio was founded, and Annie Chen's team has turned the original product idea into a reality. Because it's a fast-reading era, Annie Chen named the product ? Quick Look Comic? After entering the simple APP interface, players can see the ? Daily Recommendations section, which recommends the latest comics or collections in the form of photo streams. Annie Chen also came up with a tagline: "Quick Look Comics, you don't need to be happy for a minute".

How to quickly get the product into people's eyes? Annie Chen's team thought of calling the media to hold a product launch, but the huge cost made them shy away.

On December 31, 2014, Annie Chen was lying on her bed, exhausted from days of running around. She thought of her dream, thought of the hardships of coming to Beijing to start a business, thought of the once lost and now clear goals, thought of her team and cohesion of people's hard work of the product, her tears silently flowed down. At 9:26 p.m., Annie Chen paired her entrepreneurial story with a few cartoons titled "Sorry, I only live 1% of my life" and sent it to her microblog. Even if the dream still has 1% of light, I will pick it up and light up the whole sky of the dark night.? This tear-jerking inspirational microblogging, full of positive energy, instantly went viral on the Internet and was retweeted by many ? Big V? retweeted with ? inspirational? It's not easy? support? and other comments.

The day the cartoon was posted,? The day the cartoon was posted, the app increased by 300,000 users. The day the cartoon was posted, 300,000 users were added, and in the following days, the APP has been growing at the rate of 200,000 users per day, and for three consecutive days, it has rushed to the first place in the APPleStore free list. At the same time, the skepticism also came out overwhelmingly: ? It feels like I have become a bad person who mocks her, bullies her, strikes her and despises her great ideals if I don't support her APP.? Ideals have become a marketing tool with her!!!? On a more serious note, some people questioned? Quick Look Comics? s copyright issues, and others commented on Annie Chen's poor drawing skills, among other things.

Annie, who is sensitive by nature, almost broke down and thought of quitting. But she saw her partners, a dozen or so of them sitting there, very lost, and she knew that tears could not fall.

Slowly, Annie learned to respond to attacks with silence. While there were still voices of disdain, good news kept coming. Investors who had previously rejected her said they were willing to invest, websites, advertisers, gamers to talk about cooperation? With the investment, Annie Chen immediately started a lot of things that she wanted to do before but couldn't: raise wages for employees; start the ?300,000 yuan genuine program? ; officially sign all the cartoons on the APP, and pay for these cartoonists.

Currently, ? Quick Look Comics? s users are close to 1 million, the speed of user growth has caught Annie Chen a bit off guard, because everything is not ready. At first it was in a very rush to launch the APP, and now there are so many users, the content is not good, the function is not applicable, and can not retain the user is the big disaster. So, Annie Chen now put her mind on the development of new features of the product.

January 3, 2015, CCTV Finance Channel interviewed her. Annie Chen said: ? I want to build an original animation platform through the Internet to support more than 500 cartoon authors and 3 million readers interacting online at the same time within three years. The future of ? Quick Look Comic? is a more open platform, it will share its own high-quality fan traffic to more comic authors and create a quality enough comic sharing platform for comic authors. I know that this road is difficult, but I will, as always, pay all my efforts, failure is nothing to be afraid of, because I am still young, young is capricious, young nothing can not be.